[kwlug-disc] Can someone help?

[Raul Suarez]

Oh, yes, For dynamic and static content and a large number of pages (and I assume, contributors) using a CMS may be your best option.

Curiously, yesterday night I was thinking of doing a presentation at work titled: The Manual of the Lazy Knowledge worker. Tips and tricks to be more productive while doing less work.

One of the tips is: "The most productive work is the one you don't have to do". Using a CMS someone already did the work for you.

Raul Suarez

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--- On Wed, 5/5/10, Raul Suarez <rarsa at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Raul Suarez <rarsa at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Can someone help?
> To: "KWLUG discussion" <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Received: Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 10:27 AM
> Shane,
> 
> There are many different ways for achieving what you want.
> 
> You didn't specify if your web site is dynamic content or
> static content so I'll respond to both:
> 
> Dynamic content (content driven by a program running on the
> server):
> 
> - Using server side assembly of the page; You can use PHP,
> JSP, ASP, Ruby on Rails, etc... To populate the contents of
> your page into a standard template. Requires some
> programming.
> - You could use AJAX (HttpRequest) to bring the contents of
> the header.
> 
> Static Content (Content that does not change between calls
> to the same page)
> - Using frames: Frowned uppon these days but very popular
> in the old days. I won't go into detail why it's not good
> but you can search.
> - Clone the content of the header and apply the format
> (position, colours, etc) using CSS. This only works when you
> have a limited number of pages as changes to the header
> would require changing every page.
> - Write a simple script that will concatenate a "header"
> page with the "body" of each page. Whenever there is a new
> page, you run the script on it. Whenever the header changes,
> you run the script for all pages.
> - Using <iframe> where you can insert the contents of
> another web page into your page.
> 
> I hope one of these is the one you remember.
> 
> Raul Suarez
> 
> Technology consultant
> Software, Hardware and Practices
> _________________
> Twitter: rarsamx
> http://rarsa.blogspot.com/ 
> An eclectic collection of random thoughts
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 5/5/10, Shane <shane.msg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Shane <shane.msg at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Can someone help?
> > To: "KWLUG" <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> > Received: Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 9:53 AM
> > Thanks.  There used to be an
> > easier way using an attribute of - I believe it was
> the
> > "<a" tag.  It was told that when the page was
> > loaded, insert the contents of the external
> > file.   Progress.
> > 
> > Now I have to go back into the fog to try and figure
> out
> > what it was.  Not for any practical reason - just to
> > know. 
> > 
> > ================It's not the size of the dog in the
> fight,
> > it's the size of the fight in the dog.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "John Van Ostrand" <john at netdirect.ca>
> > Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 07:43:18 
> > To: <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> > Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Can someone help?
> > 
> > The easiest way we do this is using PHP.
> > Create header.php as the header including HEAD and
> BODY
> > tags. Then create 
> > page.php with only HTML.
> > 
> > Then create .htaccess file and use php's directive
> > "auto_prepend_file" 
> > giving header.php as the file. I don't recal the
> exact
> > syntax, search for 
> > that directive.
> > 
> > Then the header.php file is called every time page.php
> is
> > called.
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org
> > <kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org>
> > To: KWLUG <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> > Sent: Wed May 05 01:46:43 2010
> > Subject: [kwlug-disc] Can someone help?
> > 
> > This is not specific to Linux.  I am playing with
> > website development and 
> > the number of pages is growing.  The problem is that
> I
> > want to keep the page 
> > heading area the same on all pages.  If it becomes
> > necessary to change the 
> > page head I'd rather not have to do 36 changes; 36
> now.
> > 
> > When I did this before, there was a way by setting a
> > separate document and 
> > calling copies of it whenever the page was loaded,
> > automatically setting up 
> > the heading.
> > 
> > Trouble is, I forget how to do it and I can't remember
> what
> > this process of 
> > inserting text from other files is called so I have
> been
> > unable to look it 
> > up.  I've tried many possibilities but nothing has
> > worked.
> > ================It's not the size of the dog in the
> fight,
> > it's the size of 
> > the fight in the dog.
> > 
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